I was talking about this with a friend yesterday. Telling him how I have to control the urge to buy another 400+ shotgun shells whenever I see them at a Wally World. I have plenty, probably enough to last me a year or two if I didn't buy any for that time, but it's become somewhat obsessive to buy it when it's there in case it won't be there some day. He said the same thing about him and he doesn't even shoot that much. My supply would probably last him for the rest of his life as much as he shoots.OldCannon wrote:if you want to know where all your ammo is going, look at the morning lines at each Academy. People are stockpiling thousands, if not tens of thousands, of rounds of ammo. _Everybody_ is panic-buying stuff the moment it shows up (including police departments). which is resulting in a dramatic scarcity. I don't expect this will slow down until late summer/early fall.
Some of it may still be panic buying, but some of it is an obsession/conditioned response now. If it's on the shelf I gotta buy it. I told him I was buying ammo whenever I could for the last 1-1.5 years because of the upcoming election and remembering what happened in 2008. He said he wished he's listened to me about that then and bought the ammo when he could have, even though he didn't feel the need to use it then, instead of waiting until now, when he'd like to start shooting more again.
